Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)
9 Del. C. § 8728
Petition by purchasers for deed of conveyance
If the owner of the property or the owner’s legal representatives fail to redeem the property as provided in this subchapter, the purchaser of the property or the purchaser’s legal representatives, successors or assigns may present a petition to the Superior Court setting forth the appropriate facts in conformity with this subchapter and pray that the Superior Court make an order directing the Sheriff, then in office, to execute, acknowledge and deliver a deed conveying the title to the property to the petitioner; and thereupon the Superior Court shall have power, after a hearing upon the petition, to issue an order directing the Sheriff to execute, acknowledge and deliver a deed as prayed for in the petition. A description of the property as the same shall appear upon the assessment rolls, and a description by metes and bounds where obtainable shall be a sufficient description in any such deed.
Amendment history
46 Del. Laws, c. 133, § 1; 55 Del. Laws, c. 85, § 25H; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 72 Del. Laws, c. 138, § 1
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In this title (40 sections)
- 9-8618 · Refund of county taxes paid in error; refund after assessment…
- 9-8619 · Quarterly property tax reporting; New Castle County [Expires…
- 9-8701 · Collection permitted from personal property or real property
- 9-8702 · Proceedings against guardian or trustee
- 9-8703 · Remedies cumulative
- 9-8704 · Survival of prior liens
- 9-8705 · Lien of taxes
- 9-8706 · Extension of tax lien in Kent or Sussex Counties
- 9-8707 · Distress
- 9-8708 · Actions for recovery in New Castle County — Appeals; attachment
- 9-8709 · Actions for recovery in New Castle County — Judgments;…
- 9-8710 · Actions for recovery in Kent and Sussex Counties; judgments;…
- 9-8711 · Attachment of wages
- 9-8721 · Monition method established
- 9-8722 · Praecipe; judgment; monition
- 9-8723 · Form of monition
- 9-8724 · Posting of monition; sheriff’s return; alias or pluries…
- 9-8725 · Issuance and form of writ of venditioni exponas
- 9-8726 · Sales subject to approval of Department of Finance or Chief…
- 9-8727 · Title of property sold
- 9-8728 · Petition by purchasers for deed of conveyance
- 9-8729 · Redemption by owner
- 9-8730 · Petition by owner after redemption for entry on judgment record
- 9-8731 · Regularity of proceedings under venditioni exponas
- 9-8732 · No proceedings unless tax is a lien upon property;…
- 9-8733 · Fees and costs
- 9-8741 · Legal proceedings to collect unpaid taxes
- 9-8742 · Where attachment proceedings brought
- 9-8743 · Affidavit and writ of attachment
- 9-8744 · Notice of attachment to defendant
- 9-8745 · Affidavit of defense; time limit
- 9-8746 · Judgment for want of an affidavit of defense
- 9-8747 · Trial
- 9-8748 · Discharge of property or garnishee upon posting bond
- 9-8749 · Judgment and sale of property
- 9-8750 · Notice of order to sell to lienholders of real estate
- 9-8751 · Return of residue to defendant
- 9-8752 · Exemption laws do not apply; those liable as garnishee
- 9-8753 · Purchase at Sheriff’s Sale by agent of County
- 9-8754 · Proceedings to collect taxes where delay may lose benefit of…